Re: feature request

John Rood [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Stefan Beller [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:55 PM, John Rood [off-list ref] wrote:

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Users should be able to configure Git to not send them into a Vim editor.

When users pull commits, and a new commit needs to be created for a
merge, Git's current way of determining a commit message is to send
the user into a Vim window so that they can write a message. There are
2 reasons why this might not be the ideal way to prompt for a commit
message.

1. Many users are used to writing concise one-line commit messages and
would not expect to save a commit message in a multi-line file. Some
users will wonder why they are in a text editor or which file they are
editing. Others may not, in fact, realize at all that a text editor is
what they are in.

Look at the -m option of git commit,

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Thanks, I think changing the default for windows is a good idea.

The -m indeed accomplishes one-line messages when you are voluntarily
doing a commit. However, the scenario I mentioned is "When users pull
commits, and a new commit needs to be created for the merge"  In this
situation, the user isn't issuing the "git commit" command, and so
he/she doesn't have the opportunity to use the -m flag.

There is --no-edit there.